Mulvaney speculated there were likely between six and eight people close enough to Trump to possess the type of information needed to help the FBI execute its search warrant.

“This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close inside the president,” Mulvaney told CNN. “My guess is there’s probably six or eight people who had that kind of information.”

“I didn’t know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago, and I was the chief of staff for 15 months,” he added, noting that he is less connected to Trumpworld now than he had been during his days in the Trump administration.